Add Rocky Mount, North Carolina to the list of governments hit by ransomware. As of Aug. 28, they didn’t seem to yet know too much, as WITN reported: Rocky Mount leaders are trying to get the city’s network back on track after facing a cyber attack. The city is in the process of confirming what…
Already in the midst of a crisis, a Houston hospital was attacked by ransomware
It’s been a rough year for the U.S. in terms of COVID-19. And some areas have been hit worse than others. On August 1, CNN tweeted about how rough things were at Houston’s United Memorial Medical Center. Yesterday was Dr. Joseph Varon’s 134th day leading the coronavirus unit at Houston’s United Memorial Medical Center. Last…
Greenville Technical College claims no personal data affected by ransomware incident; threat actors claim otherwise
When threat actors gave Greenville Technical College in South Carolina until September 4 to respond to their ransomware demands, the college didn’t worry. They had decided not to pay because they were able to recover from the attack without paying for a decryption key. But there was a second part to the ransomware attack —…
CA: Selma Unified hit with ransomware attack
Fox26 News reports: Selma Unified School District says it was hit by hackers. The attack happened overnight locking up some of the systems Friday including the student information system. Read more on Fox26. Note that this is Selma, California, and not Alabama.
Utah Pathology Services notifying more than 110,000 patients of data breach
From Utah Pathology Services, part of the security incident notice: On June 30, 2020, we learned than an unknown third party attempted to redirect funds from Utah Pathology. This suspicious activity did not involve any patient information, or the completion of any financial transactions. Upon discovery of the attempted fraud, Utah Pathology quickly secured the…
Cisco engineer resigns then nukes 16k WebEx accounts, 456 VMs
Sergiu Gatlan reports: A former Cisco employee pleaded guilty to accessing the company’s cloud infrastructure in 2018, five months after resigning, to deploy code that led to the shut down of more than 16,000 WebEx Teams accounts and the deletion of 456 virtual machines. According to a plea agreement filed on July 30, 2020, 30-year-old…